Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.
And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.
The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.
The degree and kind of a man’s sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.
Live so that thou mayest desire to live again – that is thy duty – for in any case thou wilt live again!
It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?
The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.
Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!
A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent’s courage and your onlooker’s heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?
The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.
It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.
In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.
I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!
All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.
All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
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.
This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.
Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom – but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! – And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?
The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.