In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!