Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . .

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

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

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?