He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.

The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.