“The state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen.”
“Everything straight lies,' murmured the dwarf disdainfully. 'All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.”
“One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.”
“Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same House of Being is built. Everything parts, everything greets every other thing again; eternally the ring of being remains faithful to itself. In every Now, being begins; round every Here rolls the sphere There. The center is everywhere. Bent is the path of eternity.”
“24. O sancta simplicitas! In what strange simplification and falsification man lives! One can never cease wondering when once one has got eyes for beholding this marvel! How we have made everything around us clear and free and easy and simple!”
“Everything in proximity to the hero becomes tragedy; everything in proximity to the demigod becomes satyr-play; and everything in proximity to God becomes...what? "world" perhaps?”