Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

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.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms -- in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.