It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!