From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.

The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance.

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.