If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.

Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking

In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie

What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.