The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

Love forgives the lover even his lust.

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.