In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.

What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

The English are the people of consummate cant.

Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is also destined to become a master.