What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.

Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.