There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.

One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.