Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness.

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.