I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling. Women are the same with their lovers.

All truths are bloody truths to me.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.