''The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind''
“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”
''A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.''
''There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”
''In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.''
“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.''
''All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.''
''That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.''
''All I need is a sheet of paper
and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down.”
''What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.”
''you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
''Perhaps I know best why it is Man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”
''Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.”
''Invisible threads are the strongest ties.”
''The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”
''There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy''
“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.”
''He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee."