Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.

Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers.

Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?

Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.