One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.

We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets.

I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.

What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.