There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
Nothing truly convincing – which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill – has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by
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