What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.

All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle

Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?