And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.