Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

No artist tolerates reality.

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.