What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.

I am no man, I am dynamite.

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.