What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.