One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

The philosopher caught in the nets of language.

Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

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.

The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.

Only sick music makes money today.