When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".

Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love--and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed.

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?