Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one.

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.