Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.

Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.

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.

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".

In a certain state it is indecent to live longer.

God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.