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Life is determination in youth, strife during manhood, and wisdom in maturity

Byblos was not the mightiest cities, but it was the greatest religious center. The Old Testament was called the Book of Byblos. The head deity of the city was El, the father of all gods. El is the name in the Bible often referred to as Elohim, and in Arabic, it is called Elah.

Truth, like light blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

... true debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligation.

Woe to you when all men speak well of you

We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all costs, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures

The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know dreams of being a gangster and of ruling society by force alone.

Every man needs slaves as he needs fresh air.

Crime constantly monopolizes the headlines but the criminal appears there only fugitively, to be replaced at once.

... I earned my living by carrying on dialogues with people I scorned.

I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.

Anyone who has meditated a good deal on man,by profession or vocation, is led to feel nostalgia for the primates. They at least don't have any ulterior motives.

Truth is the daughter of time.

Man was once left free to learn from reason and nature, and promptly abused the privilege; he must now submit his comprehension to the instituted law before he be allowed to seek meanings once more in the natural world.

The Biblical institution must fill the place man made empty through his own folly and since he has thrown away his ability to profit from natural wisdom he must have an explicit law imposed on him

... all ideas and things go in pairs, like the animals in the ark, because the word is symmetrical. Ideas in turn are divided into two sorts, those which establish themselves to our own experience and those which rests upon the authority of a witness, as do facts in history or the assertions of the Bible.

Knowledge is no knowledge without zeal

Every deep thinker fears being understood more than he fears being misunderstood.

The vain man is just as pleased with every good opinion about himself that he heras as he suffers from every bad opinion.

"Exploitation" is not part of a vicious or imperfect or primitive society: it belongs to the nature of living things, it is a basic organic function, a consequence of the will to power which is the will to life.

And what makes us compassionate toward this dangerous and beautiful great cat called Woman, even if we fear her, is that she is more capable of suffering, more vulnerable, more in need of love and doomed to disappointments than any other animal.

We are in the midst of our bliss only where we are most in danger.

The greatest shall be the one most capable of solitude, the most hidden, the most deviative, the man beyond good and evil, the master of his virtues, the one whose will can overflow.

Hence, the philosopher must include strength of will, hardness, and ability to make far-reaching decisions in his ideal of human greatness.

The movie Van Helsing opens with the killing of Mr. Hyde, a scene lifted directly from this book.