Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.

Without music, life would be a mistake.