No Victor Believes In Chance.

Supposing Truth Is A Woman -- What Then?

I Can Tell By My Own Reaction To It That This Book Is Harmful." But Let Him Only Wait And Perhaps One Day He Will Admit To Himself That This Same Book Has Done Him A Great Service By Bringing Out The Hidden Sickness Of His Heart And Making It Visible.— Altered Opinions Do Not Alter A Man’s Character (or Do So Very Little); But They Do Illuminate Individual Aspects Of The Constellation Of His Personality Which With A Different Constellation Of Opinions Had Hitherto Remained Dark And Unrecognizable.

People Who, Out Of An Inborn Moderation, Leave Every Glass Standing Only Half-emptied Refuse To Admit That Everything In The World Has Its Sediments And Dregs.

It Is A Self-deception Of Philosophers And Moralists To Imagine That They Escape Decadence By Opposing It. That Is Beyond Their Will; And, However Little They Acknowledge It, One Later Discovers That They Were Among The Most Powerful Promoters Of Decadence.

A Thinker Sees His Own Actions As Experiments And Questions--as Attempts To Find Out Something. Success And Failure Are For Him Answers Above All.