Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!"

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

Pity makes suffering contagious.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'