It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.