The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

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

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

I no longer want to walk on worn soles.

One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system.