What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.