Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.

Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.