From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.

My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.