Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.

Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.