He who obeys, does not listen to himself!

From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.

In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.

Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.

truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.