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

Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability.

Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts.

No one is such a liar as the indignant man.

But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.