Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!

That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts.

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.