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

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.

Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.

Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing.

We live as if we were unaware of our impending destruction

Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you must be tried, do battle, and suffer if you are to acquire the truth for yourself. It is a sheer illusion to think that in relation to the truth there is an abridgement, a short cut that dispenses with the necessity for struggling for it.

Where there are two people, there is untruth.