“And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman’s breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.”

“There are many good inventions on earth, some useful, some pleasing: for their sake, the earth is to be loved. And there is such a variety of well-invented things that the earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.”

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”

“Zarathustra saw many lands and many peoples: thus he discovered the good and evil of many peoples. No greater power did Zarathustra find on earth than good and evil.”

“Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.”

“Plato has given to all posterity the model of a new art form, the model of the novel--which may be described as an infinitely enhanced Aesopian fable, in which poetry holds the same rank in relation to dialectical philosophy as this same philosophy held for many centuries in relation to theology: namely the rank of ancilla.”

“And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth.”