Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?

"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."

The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland, the world, or finally, for the really arrogant - I mean our modern pessimists - by the Good God himself.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.