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.

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.