Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.

People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.

Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.