The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.

Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.

The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.