The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists, and grow restless: we see our own shadow wavering up and down before us. A psychologist must look away from himself in order to see anything at all.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.