Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.