O puro espírito é pura mentira. Enquanto o padre continuar a passar por ser uma espécie superior – o padre, esse negador, esse caluniador, esse envenenador da vida por profissão – , não há resposta...

As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealously ; as yet hath his gushing passion not become calm in beauty.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Nihilism is…not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys.

consciousness,” their most impoverished and error-prone organ! I believe that on earth there has never been such a feeling of misery, such a leaden discomfort—while at the same time those old instincts had not all...

When we observe how some people know how to manage their experiences–their insignificant, everyday experiences–so that they become an arable soil that bears fruit three times a year, while others–and how many there are!–are driven...

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the loss of myth, of a mythic home, the mythic womb?

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

hati terikat, jiwa bebas.–jika kau mengikat dan merantai hatimu kuatkuat, kau dapat memberikan banyak kebebasan pada jiwamu: itulah yang ku katakan pada suatu hari. akan tetapi orangorang tidak percaya, kecuali saat mereka benarbenar menemukannya

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.