Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?

Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.

Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.