The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life...three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty - all belonging to the oldest festal joys.

Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhor Christianity with a deadly hatred.

The Beautiful exists just as little as the True. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man w…

The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence - here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less…

In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

All human race, from China to Peru, Pleasure, howe'er disguis'd by art, pursue.

Schon ist mein Blick am Hugel, dem besonnten, dem Wege, den ich kaum begann, voran. So fasst uns das, was wir nicht fassen konnten, voller Erscheinung, aus der…