I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!

Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity!

An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For the old culture has its greatness and goodness behind it, and an historical education forces one to admit that it can never again be fresh.

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.