The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?

Only sick music makes money today.

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.

[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.

Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.