The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.

The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.

Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.

The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.