All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper.

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.