Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.