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

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

Human, all too human.

This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.