Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

In a certain state it is indecent to live longer.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.

You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.

In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.