Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!