There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.

Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.

And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the "moral significance of existence." But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.