One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives.

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.

Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?

When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.