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No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed by all the members thereof.

Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.

Whenever kingship approaches tyranny it is near its end, for by this it becomes ripe for division.

Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how nobel! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.

If a man were to say he chose something impossible he would be thought a fool; but we can wish for things that are impossible, for instance immortality.

It is both necessary to say and think that being is: for to be is possible, and nothingness is not possible.

Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.

Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.

Hegel says somewhere that all great events and personalities in world history reappear in one fashion or another. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Since each person, as an individual, is the not-being of the other, it is never possible to eliminate non-understanding completely.

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.

It is true that liberty is precious - so precious that it must be rationed.

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

For knowledge is itself power.

Many people are afraid of freedom. They are conditioned to be afraid of it.

The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

I think that I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.