“I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.”

“The only interesting philosophers are the ones who have stopped thinking and have begun to search for happiness.”

“The idea of the Eternal Return can be fully grasped only by a man endowed with several chronic, hence recurrent infirmities, and who thus has the advantage of proceeding from relapse to relapse, with all that this implies as philosophic reflexion.”

“Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.”

“Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.”

“Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.”

“One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.”