I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.

However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.

A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

Morality in Europe today is herd-morality