Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.

One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."