The most dangerous physicians are those who can act in perfect mimicry of the born physician.

You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.

I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason / as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.

When one rows, it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'