It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.

The final reward of the dead - to die no more

If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.

What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.