There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.

If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.