The word of man is the most durable of all material.

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.

Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.