As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.

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.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although only a part of mankind is capable of such despair. Christianity lies in wait for such as those and pursues them

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.