Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.

Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.

No one is such a liar as the indignant man.

Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.