God is dead.

If Goethe is a transposed painter and Schiller a transposed orator, then Wagner is a transposed actor.

Ah women, they make the highs higher, and the lows more frequent.

To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

One often contradicts an opinion when it is really only the tone in which it has been presented that is unsympathetic.

The mother of dissipation is not joy but joylessness.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

Can an ass be tragic? To perish under a burden one can neither bear nor throw off? The case of the philosopher.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

What? Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it then, that the Russians have songs?

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both -- a philosopher.

The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.