It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.

Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.

I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well.

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"

God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?