The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!

One should not go into churches if one wants to breathe pure air.

[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

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

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.