Pain makes hens and poets cackle.

What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.

The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.

Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.