In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

With Nietzsche, the black pirates' flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German knowledge. (He is) a different man, from a different race, (his,) a new kind of heroism, philosophywith bellicose weapons and armor.

Again and again, faith in a possible satisfaction of the human race breaks through at the very moments of most zealous discord because humankind will never be able to live and work without this consoling delusion of its ascent into morality, without this dream of final and ultimate accord.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality ever chroniclednever before did a generation suffer such a moral setback after it had attained such intellectual heights.

Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.