I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

Man is the cruelest animal.

For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.

Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.

If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.