You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.

A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.

They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.