What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness

Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.

Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.