Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers and….

Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free in….

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live..

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine..

If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one….

Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it eve….

After your death you will be what you were before your birth..

Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than….

The world is my representation.

Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire.

...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual..

Authority and example lead the world..

No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a pond of still w….

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible.

We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share ….

That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in its….

Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines for….

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. Bu….

Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other.

To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as tr….

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force….