One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.