To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.

The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of adequate expression; otherwise, there would not be so many languages. The 'thing in itself' (which is precisely what the pure truth, apart from any of its consequences, would be) is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least worth striving for.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.