With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.