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

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

love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

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

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.