Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.

The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.