Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.

You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.