Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.