We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153