The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

Man must become better and more evil.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.