The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

Every profound spirit needs a mask.

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely.

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

One never perishes through anybody but oneself.