Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.

A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".