You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

To have and to want more that is life.

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

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.