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.

What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.