The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.

Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist.

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.