Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.