The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.

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

One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.

A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.