Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

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.

Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists, and grow restless: we see our own shadow wavering up and down before us. A psychologist must look away from himself in order to see anything at all.