I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.

I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.