But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.

Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.