Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.

... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.

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.

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.