The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.