Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
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?
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.
