Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.

Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.

The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.

Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.