What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.

Life without music is no life at all.

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

There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.