We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.

You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.

Existence begins in every instant.

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.