Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.

In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.

When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.