But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.

What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.

I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.