Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

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.

Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.