The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.

All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.

Life is a constant process of dying.

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

One should use common words to say uncommon things

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.