What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.

We can destroy only as creators

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.