It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.

But the higher a man mounts, the greater may be his fall; all genius is a conquering of chaos, mystery.

Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself, which, in the deepest interpretation, is the absolute, is God. Man in his highest form, the genius, has such a relation, and for him the absolute is either the conception of the highest worth of existence, in which case he is a philosopher; or it is the wonderful fairyland of dreams, the kingdom of absolute beauty, and then he is an artist.

The Jew is an inborn Communist.

In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.

A nation orients itself by its own geniuses, and derives from them its ideas of its own ideals, but the guiding star serves also as a light to other nations. As speech has been created by a few great men, the most extraordinary wisdom lies concealed in it, a wisdom which reveals itself to a few ardent explorers but which is usually overlooked by the stupid professional philologists.

It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.