Sleep is no mean art.

Faith makes blessed. Consequently it lies.

With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?