There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.

We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will that the sun shall rise”; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, “I wish it to roll”; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, “Here I lie, but here I wish to lie.” But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression “I wish”?

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.