Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.

What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

Every word is a preconceived judgment.

Success has always been a great liar.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.