Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

There are no facts, only interpretations.

How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.