Great intellects are skeptical.

All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.

The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.

The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day.

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.