Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.

The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.

After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?

A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.