Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.

The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of adequate expression; otherwise, there would not be so many languages. The 'thing in itself' (which is precisely what the pure truth, apart from any of its consequences, would be) is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least worth striving for.

"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."

One has to know the size of one's stomach.