In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings--honors, treasures, beautiful women--accessible even to cowards.

Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.

The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.