History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

Great intellects are skeptical.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

That which does not destroy, strengthens.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.