The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!

That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.

i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.