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

Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.

Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.