That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight.

There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be.

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