One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.

Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.