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

"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.

Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.

Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.

The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.