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

He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.