When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.