The Essence Of Morality Is A Questioning

Pleasure Only Starts Once The Worm Has Got Into The Fruit; To Become Delightful, Happiness Must Be Tainted With Poison.

Nothing Radically Changes When Instead Of Human Satisfaction, We Think Of The Satisfaction Of Some Heavenly Being! God's Person Displaces The Problem And Does Not Abolish It.

Though The Immediate Impression Of Rebellion May Obscure The Fact, The Task Of Authentic Literature Is Nevertheless Only Conceivable In Terms Of A Desire For Fundamental Communication With The Reader.

It Is Human Agitation, With All The Vulgarity Of Needs Small And Great, With Its Flagrant Disgust For The Police Who Repress It, It Is The Agitation Of All Menthat Alone Determines Revolutionary Mental Forms, In Opposition To Bourgeois Mental Forms.

We Did Not Lack Modesty—on The Contrary—but Something Urgently Drove Us To Defy Modesty Together As Immodestly As Possible.