There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.

If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

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

Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.

I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.