How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.

I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies

The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

Great intellects are skeptical.

Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.