Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.

One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.

It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?

Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.