And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.