 Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. |
| In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. |
| Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. |
| It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. |
| You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause. |
| The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. |
| That which does not kill us makes us stronger. |
| Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect. |
| A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. |
| The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross. |
| Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend. |
| At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. |
| People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights. |
| 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? |
| Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. |
| The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book. |
| Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. |
| There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude. |
| We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. |
| The lie is a condition of life. |
