Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.
Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.
But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.
A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.