The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.

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

But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.