Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.

In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.

The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.

Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.