Love, too, has to be learned.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.

Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.

Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.

The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.