A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.

Pascal is right to assert that if we had the same dream every night, we would be as engaged by it as we are by the things we see every day. If an artisan were sure of dreaming every night a full twelve hours that he was king, I believe, says Pascal, he would be just as happy as a king who dreamed every night for twelve hours that he was an artisan.

These trumpeters of reality are bad musicians.

With all willing we are dealing simply with commanding and obeying, on the foundation... of a social structure of many "souls", which is why a philosopher should exercise the right to conceive willing itself under the horizon of morality: that is, morality understood as a doctrine of the power relations under which the phenomenon "life" emerges.

Man who loves like a woman becomes thereby a slave ; a woman, however, who loves like a woman.

We possess scientific knowledge today to precisely the extent that we have decided to accept the evidence of the senses – to the extent that we have learned to sharpen and arm them and to think them through to their conclusions.

Love brings the high and concealed characteristics of the lover into the light--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it easily deceives regarding his normality.

They cast injustice and filth at the solitary one: but, my brother, if you would be a star, you must shine for them none the less on that account!

Belief means not wanting to know what is true.