Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence.

Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.

Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.

Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.