The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself