Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.

If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.

Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.