The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep — where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (… - Friedrich Nietzsche

In my opinion, Henrik Ibsen has become very German. With all his robust idealism and "Will to Truth," he never dared to ring himself free from moral-illusionism which says "freedom," and will not admit, even to itself, what freedom is: the second stage in the metamorphosis of the "Will to Power" in him who lacks it. In the first stage, one demands justice at the hands of those who have power. In the second, one speaks of "freedom," that is to say, one wishes to "shake oneself free" from those who have power. In the third stage, one speaks of "equal rights"—that is to say, so long as one is not a predominant personality one wishes to prevent one's competitors from growing in power.

Supposing truth is a woman — what then?

The maturity of man — that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play