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

Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

The universe without music would be madness.

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?