Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success--but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.

Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.

There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.