In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.

One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.

When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.