"The Refinement of Shame. People are not..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you know the why, you can live any how.”

“Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.”

“There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.”

“Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.”

“What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.”

“If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.”

“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.”

“No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.”

“Jealousy does not wait for reasons.”