Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
I am not a human being, I am dynamite.
Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.
Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her
Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.