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.

A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

The English are the people of consummate cant.

Man is the cruelest animal.