Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.
if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.
One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
Existence begins in every instant.
For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.
The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence
As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.
It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!
Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?
If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.