One has to know the size of one's stomach.

I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.

What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.