If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the cause, there is no rule or 'law'. It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, for-each-other, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we project and mix this symbol world into things as if it existed 'in itself', we act once more as we have always acted- mythologically.