Behind thy thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage – it is called Self; it dwelleth in thy body, it is thy body.
Before the effect one believes in other causes than after the effect.
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
Art is with us in order that we may not perish through truth.
Art is the only task of life.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Aphorism and the sentence, in which I, as the foremost among the Germans, am master, are the forms of “eternity;” my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book, — what every one else does not say in a book…
And this secret spake Life herself unto me. “Behold,” said she, “I am that which must ever surpass itself.”
And lost be the day to us in which a measure hath not been danced. And false be every truth which hath not had laughter along with it!
And life, in spite of ourselves, is not devised by morality.
Although the most intelligent judges of the witches, and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchcraft, the guilt, nevertheless, was not there. So it is with all guilt.
All sciences must, from now on, prepare the way for the future work of the philosopher: this work being understood to mean that the philosopher has to solve the problem of values and that he has to decide on the rank order of values.
