One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

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

On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding