Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example!

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.