Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

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

The final reward of the dead - to die no more

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.