A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.

Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!