Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.