Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.

Only ideas won by walking have any value.

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

All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past, without finding his present motives (like honor) senseless, and without opposing scorn and disdain to the passions that urge one on to the future and to the happiness in it.

Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.

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