Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

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.

Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.