The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.

Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.

All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

The pure soul is a pure lie.

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.