Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.

Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.

Discontent is the seed of ethics.

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.