Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.