All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity!

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.