Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

Yes, life is a woman!

This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.

Love is more afraid of change than destruction.