That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

Many things about man are not very godly: whenever a person excretes feces, how can he be a god then? But it is even worse regarding the other feces we call sin: man still surely wants to retain this, and not excrete it. Now however, I must believe it: a person can be God and still excrete feces. Thus I teach you, excrete your feces and become gods.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.