Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)

Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence.

People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!