One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.

The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.