What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Was that life? Well then, once more!