Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

If you want to know what god thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.