The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.

For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.

This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.