The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.

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

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.

The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.

The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?