“Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.”

“Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology.”

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

“Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”

“Plato's objection to the older art--that it is the imitation of a phantom and hence belongs to a sphere even lower than the empirical world--could certainly not be directed against the new art; and so we find Plato endeavoring to transcend reality and to represent the idea which underlies this pseudo-reality.”

“But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!”

“Woe entreats: Go! Away, woe! But all that suffers wants to live, that it may become ripe and joyous and longing- longing for what is farther, higher, brighter. "I want heirs"- thus speaks all that suffers; "I want children; I do not want myself". Joy, however, does not want heirs, or children- joy wants itself, wants eternity, wants recurrence, wants everything eternally the same.”