Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.