Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

The Antichrist, Section 7