I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.