Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---

An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.

"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."