The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.

The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!

Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.