Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.

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

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

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

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

The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play

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

When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Love awakens spirit of being.

In the long run, everything is a toaster.

I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.

Sorry I had to be so nasty to you Janina, at the end of a scene.

Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay.

I always turn to my intuition for personal guidance.

I believe the world will fundamentally change the more women become economically empowered.

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.

The students wanted to speak to the government, and the police answered with bullets.