Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.

The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system.