Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.

Convictions are prisons.

Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!