The lie is a condition of life.

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence.

He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.

People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.

[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.