But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.

Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.