The English are a nation of consummate cant.

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.

It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error of responsibility, which is based upon the error of the freedom of will.