Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.

Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

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

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief