Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.