One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive--or even boring.

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.