“I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.”

“But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had—power.”

“Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health...”

“A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?”

“Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.”