In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.