The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.