Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.

Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!