The Pure Soul Is A Pure Lie.

Thoughts Are The Shadows Of Our Feelings - Always Darker, Emptier And Simpler.

That Little Hypocrites And Half-crazed People Dare To Imagine That On Their Account The Laws Of Nature Are Constantly Broken; Such An Enhancement Of Every Kind Of Selfishness To Infinity, To Impudence, Cannot Be Branded With Sufficient Contempt. And Yet Christianity Owes Its Triumph To This Pitiable Flattery Of Personal Vanity.

In Constructing Concepts, We Overlook The Fact That No Two Things Are The Same. There Is No Such Thing As The Concept Of A Leaf, Only Billions And Billions Of Leaves.

One Should Not Be Deceived: Great Spirits Are Skeptics ... Strength, Freedom Which Is Born Of The Strength And Overstrength Of The Spirit, Proves Itself By Skepticism. Men Of Conviction Are Not Worthy Of The Least Consideration In Fundamental Questions Of Value And Disvalue. Convictions Are Prisons.

Beauty Is For The Artist Something Outside All Orders Of Rank, Because In Beauty Opposites Are Tamed; The Highest Sign Of Power, Namely Power Over Opposites; Moreover, Without Tension: - That Violence Is No Longer Needed: That Everything Follows, Obeys, So Easily And So Pleasantly - That Is What Delights The Artist's Will To Power.