It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.

When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.

I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.

The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!

Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.