What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.

Woman was God's second mistake.

People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.

The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!

Christianity is Platonism for the people.

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.