I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.

Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.

God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.