Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.

For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!