Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do.

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

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

We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.