I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.