Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.