It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.

That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.

What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.