Only the thoughts that we live out have any value. Demian
First principle: one must need strength, otherwise one will never have it. Twilight of the Idols
The only respect in which man is superior to animals is that he can die when he wants to, not just when he has to. Maybe it's the one freedom you can always count on — the freedom to throw your life away. The Post Office Girl
Man’s being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a kind of ontological centaur, half immersed in nature, half transcending it. History as a System
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