Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

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.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.