A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.