Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.

What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!

We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.