There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.

The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.

Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.