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what happened in old times with the Stoics still happens today, as soon as ever a philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world in its own image; it cannot do otherwise; philosophy is this tyrannical impulse itself, the most spiritual Will to Power, the will to “creation of the world,” the will to the causa prima.
He who cannot find the way to his ideal, lives more frivolously and shamelessly than the man without an ideal.
The belly is the reason why man does not so readily take himself for a God.
“Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise”: so say the most ancient and the most modern serpents. 153. 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.
