Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.

It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---

Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.