Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.

Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.

There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.