Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief

From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.