The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.