Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going.

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

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

The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.

In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.

Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.