Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

Show me that you are redeemed, and I will believe in your Redeemer.

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.

Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.