The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built.

Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.