The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.
Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.
Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.