Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.