It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.

The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.

There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.