How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.

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

We should never let ourselves be burnt for our opinions; we are not that sure of them. But perhaps for this -- that we may have and change our opinions.

Plato was a bore.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology.