We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

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

You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?

Was that life? Well then, once more!

I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.