A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.

no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

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

The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.