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

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.