Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

Every past is worth condemning.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.