Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.