History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

Master-morality and Slave-morality.

The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.

There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.

My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.