For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art is far rather to be employed to relieve the mind overburdened with emotions. Out of the illogical comes much good. It is so firmly rooted in the passions, in language, in art, in religion, and generally in everything which gives value to life. It is only the naive people who can believe that the nature of man can be changed into a purely logical one. We have yet to learn that others can suffer, and this can never be completely learned.

Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.

I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".