And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

No artist tolerates reality.

Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.

The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.