He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence.

A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.

One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."