A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.

Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves