Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.

I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.