All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.

The Gay Science, section 108

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

We no longer love our knowledge enough once we have passed it on.

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.