Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.

The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wants woman to be peaceable--but woman is essentially, like the cat, not peaceable, however well she may have trained herself to assume the appearance of peace.

If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.

The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!

Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.

The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.