Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.