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

The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.

Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

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

He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.

...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.