In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

Convictions are prisons.

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?