To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."

Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").

Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

Almost two thousand years, and no new god!