Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.

... the structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the vibrating of a bridge, which changes with every step one takes on it.

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

Don't you know that every perfect life would be the end of art?

He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.