Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.

It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!

The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Plato was a bore.

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