Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief

Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability.

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.