He Who Seeks Intelligence Lacks Intelligence.

If A Woman Possesses Manly Virtues, She Is To Be Run Away From; And If She Does Not Possess Them, She Runs Away Herself.

No More Fiction, For Now We Calculate; But That We May Calculate, We Had To Make Fiction First.

What Good Is A Book That Does Not Even Transport Us Beyond All Books?

In Order For Once To Get A Glimpse Of Our European Morality From A Distance, In Order To Compare It With Other Earlier Or Future Moralities, One Must Do As The Traveller Who Wants To Know The Height Of The Towers Of A City: He Leaves The City.

Deception, Flattering, Lying, Deluding, Talking Behind The Back, Putting Up A False Front, Living In Borrowed Splendor, Wearing A Mask, Hiding Behind Convention, Playing A Role For Others And For Oneself -- In Short, A Continuous Fluttering Around The Solitary Flame Of Vanity -- Is So Much The Rule And The Law Among Men That There Is Almost Nothing Which Is Less Comprehensible Than How An Honest And Pure Drive For Truth Could Have Arisen Among Them.