Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.