A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Woman was God's second mistake.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Fear is the mother of morality.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.