I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

Only where there are graves are there resurrections.

How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.

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

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.