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.

One who has a why can endure anyhow.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.

Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.

Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.