A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.

Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.

Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error of responsibility, which is based upon the error of the freedom of will.

Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!