In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

Pain makes hens and poets cackle.

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although only a part of mankind is capable of such despair. Christianity lies in wait for such as those and pursues them

Every past is worth condemning.

The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.