In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.