I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.

It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.