Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.

As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we have sunken and fallen down:for, in any event, they had at one time supposed that they were with us (even if it were through us) on the heights.

What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.