The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will that the sun shall rise”; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, “I wish it to roll”; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, “Here I lie, but here I wish to lie.” But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression “I wish”?

[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.