Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.