Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.

What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.