The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.
Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it.
Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!
God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!
Faith makes blessed. Consequently it lies.
If a man has a strong faith, he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.
For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.
The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you – is to die soon.
Battle not with Hello Kitty lest ye become Hello Kitty; and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you with huge eyes and a helpless disposition.
Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.
Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.
Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect – how happy! how free!
I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children’s land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.
Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one’s own ideals.
I wasn’t sure what day it was because life is meaningless. Turns out it’s Thursday. The thing about life still applies.
We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.
Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus – you have to react, you follow every impulse.
Every profound spirit needs a mask.
Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.
What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent.