Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

I am one thing, my writings are another.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.