In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

Thinking evil is making evil.

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.