The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built.
There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists, and grow restless: we see our own shadow wavering up and down before us. A psychologist must look away from himself in order to see anything at all.
All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.
I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?
I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.
The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.
Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.
Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!
Man makes god in his own image.
If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.
All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.
All words are prejudices.
Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.
To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.
Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.
Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.
Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.
If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.
The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.
I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.