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.

What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.