The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.

That which does not destroy, strengthens.

There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

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

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.