It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots.

Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.

To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

Almost two thousand years, and no new god!

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.