The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils; Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.