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In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

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It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

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If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

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Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical...more

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Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

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The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

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I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

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The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

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One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common g...more

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You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagan...more

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Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page—rather he picks about five words at random out of t...more

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A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up."―Epigrams and Interludes, Section 79

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A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

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There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

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A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance,...more