Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.