Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

When anyone apologizes to us he has to do it very expertly: otherwise we might easily come to see ourselves as the guilty party and experience unpleasant feelings.

I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.

Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.

I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.