There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.

The melancholia of everything completed!

I am almost equal to a shadow.

Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.