Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.
If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.
A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.
Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.
Human, all too human.
About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.
It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!
If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn’t, he is not an all powerful god.
Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her.
In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs.
It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.
One must not let oneself be misled: they say ‘Judge not!’ but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.
This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.
All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.
Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.
Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.
Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.
To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier – that is the only way to keep joy pure.
Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.