One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.

Love, too, has to be learned.

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

Man is the cruelest animal.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

The noble soul reveres itself

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.