There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.

Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life."

Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas well as by the feeling of an incapacity for it (Min this respect a typical romantic!).... Fundamentally, Carlyle is an English atheist who makes it a point of honor not to be one.

Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").