Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

The real question is: How much truth can I stand?

In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.