"I felt serene that I had forged a good sword, but at the same time I felt a cold dread in me for starting on a course…"

"And who is and should be a pessimist? He who is mature for death and is in no condition to love life, just as the opt…"

"But at the bottom, the immanent philosopher sees in the entire universe only the deepest longing for absolute annihil…"

"The will must not only despise death, it must love it; for chastity is the love of death."

"Life is hell, and the sweet still night of absolute death is the annihilation of hell."

"The man who has known clearly and distinctly that all life is suffering; that, whatever the way in which it may appea…"

"Every action of man, the highest as well as the lowest, is egoistic; for it flows from a certain individuality, a cer…"

"God has died and His death was the life of the world."

"What is the ideal state? It will be the historical form that encompasses all mankind. However, we will not define thi…"

"Why did God not immediately disappear into nothingness, if he wished to no longer be? One must ascribe omnipotence to…"