O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely-"il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien"-I wager he finds nothing!

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.

Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary