Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.

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

What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.

The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.