At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole - there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole...But nothing exists apart from the whole!

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error of responsibility, which is based upon the error of the freedom of will.