“Nothing succeeds if prankishness has no part in it.”

“Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell...”

“People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.”

“Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you has shaken me.”

“...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.”

“One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-- blessing it rather than in love with it.”

“Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.”