When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.

I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.