People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.