I should not believe in a God who does not dance.

To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.

About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.