Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.

Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!

We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.

One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole - there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole...But nothing exists apart from the whole!