The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?

A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.

Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.