Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.

At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.

The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.

Discontent is the seed of ethics.

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.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.