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There is distrust of these modern ideas in this mode of looking at things, a disbelief in all that has been constructed yesterday and today; there is perhaps some slight admixture of satiety and scorn, which can no longer endure the bric-a-brac of ideas of the most varied origin, such as so-called Positivism at present throws on the market; a disgust of the more refined taste at the village-fair motleyness and patchiness of all these reality-philosophasters, in whom there is nothing either new or true, except this motleyness. Therein it seems to me that we should agree with those skeptical
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Sceptical on reason
He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself thereby, as a despiser.
Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she—forgets how to charm.
In the background of all their personal vanity, women themselves have still their impersonal scorn—for “woman.”
We all feign to ourselves that we are simpler than we are, we thus relax ourselves away from our fellows.
Where there is neither love nor hatred in the game, woman’s play is mediocre.
The sexes deceive themselves about each other: the reason is that in reality they honor and love only themselves (or their own ideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wishes woman to be peaceable: but in fact woman is essentially unpeaceable, like the cat, however well she may have assumed the peaceable demeanor.
One is punished best for one’s virtues.
In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man.
He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Insanity in individuals is something rare—but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
Love brings to light the noble and hidden qualities of a lover—his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive as to his normal character.
There is a haughtiness of kindness which has the appearance of wickedness.
