One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.

Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.

What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.

In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.