When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.

Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.