Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past, without finding his present motives (like honor) senseless, and without opposing scorn and disdain to the passions that urge one on to the future and to the happiness in it.

We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.

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.