It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

The hour-hand of life.

Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

Art is the great stimulus to life.

Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!