A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.
Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.
The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.
Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.
The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.
Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.
Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.
In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.
Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.
An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.
The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.
Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.
He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.
The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.
Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.
It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.
Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman’s game is mediocre.
Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.
Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome.
Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.