There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! - As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty; and many of them have not yet been discovered.

Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.