One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

Only where there are graves are there resurrections.

Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.