Yes, life is a woman!

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.

Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.