For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

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

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.

All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.