...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.

Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!

In the end one only experiences oneself.

All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.

Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.