There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

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.

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland, the world, or finally, for the really arrogant - I mean our modern pessimists - by the Good God himself.