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

The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas well as by the feeling of an incapacity for it (Min this respect a typical romantic!).... Fundamentally, Carlyle is an English atheist who makes it a point of honor not to be one.

Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

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.

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.