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

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example!

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.