Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.

One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

I no longer want to walk on worn soles.

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

The Gay Science, section 108