One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.

Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.

Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.