One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.

How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.

God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?

Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.