Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.

So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

A life without music is an error.

In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.