Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

What doesn't kill you make you stronger.

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

A thought comes when it will, not when I will.