How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.

Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.

Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.

Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.