The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!

Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!

The value of life itself cannot be estimated.

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.