Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.

Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.