I should not believe in a God who does not dance.

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.

The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

Human, all too human.

The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built.