He Who Fights Too Long Against Dragons

Without Art We Would Be Nothing But Foreground And Live Entirely In The Spell Of That Perspective Which Makes What Is Closest At Hand And Most Vulgar Appear As If It Were Vast, And Reality Itself.

That Is The Most Extreme Form Of Nihilism: Nothingness (the "meaningless") Eternally!

What A Person Is Begins To Betray Itself When His Talent Weakens--when He Stops Showing What He Can Do. Talent, Too, Is Ornamentation, And Ornamentation, Too, Is A Hiding Place.

A Person Unlearns Arrogance When He Knows He Is Always Among Worthy Human Beings; Being Alone Fosters Presumption. Young People Are Arrogant Because They Always Associate With Their Own Peers, Those Who Are All Really Nothing But Who Would Like To Be Very Important.

The One Conclusive Argument That Has At All Times Discouraged People From Drinking A Poison Is Not That It Kills But Rather That It Tastes Bad.