Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.

Thinking evil is making evil.

An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.