Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia's fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him.