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Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

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Better know nothing than half-know many things.

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All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

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Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.

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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mi...more

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To the man of science, on his unassuming and laborious travels, which must often enough be journeys through the desert, there appear those glittering ...more

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Wherever I found a living creature there I found the will to power.

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The drive to knowledge has become too strong for us to be able to want happiness without knowledge or of a strong, firmly rooted delusion; even to ima...more

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The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

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None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

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One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

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It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head ...more

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Language as putative science. - The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate wor...more