And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist" from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense".