He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.

Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself

In true love it is the soul that envelops the body.

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.