And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.

We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.

I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Christianity is religion for the executioner.