"He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you."

"The quest for philosophy's beginning is idle, for everywhere in all beginnings we find only the crude, the unformed, the empty, and the ugly. What matters in all things is the higher levels."

"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

"Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual."

"He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser."

"Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves."

"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as i can be a woman in it."

"Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know."

"Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of life."

"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"

"When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever."