What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.

The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.

I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.