Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

The noble type of man feels himself to be the determiner of values, he does not need to be approved of, he judges 'what harms me is harmful in itself', he knows himself to be that which in general accords honour to things, he creates values.

Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.

In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.