Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.

The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.

No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.