Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.

I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.