Therefore he gives man hope, in reality it is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
Women can enter into friendship with a man perfectly well; but in order to maintain it the aid of a little physical antipathy is perhaps required.
When one has one’s wherefore of life, one gets along with almost every how.
What does not kill me, strengthens me.
Two different things wanteth the true man: danger and diversion. Therefore wanteth he woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them.
There is nothing we are fonder of communicating to others than the seal of secrecy — together with what is under it.
There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
There is no devil and no hell. Thy soul will be dead even sooner than thy body; fear, therefore, nothing any more!
The wisest men in all ages have judged similarly with regard to life: it is good for nothing.
No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
Man is the cruellest animal.
