Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight.

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.