What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.

The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.