When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.

When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.

Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.