Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.