Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error of responsibility, which is based upon the error of the freedom of will.

Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.