In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.

A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.

Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies

Existence begins in every instant.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.