You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.

Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.

At heart I am a warrior.

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.