The future influences the present just as much as the past.

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

The superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the superman is to be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, be true to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! They are poisoners, whether they know it or not.

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.