Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.

We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."