The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves.

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

I and me are always too deeply in conversation.