When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.

Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.

"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?