In Germany there is much complaining about my 'eccentricities.' But since it is not known where my center is, it won't be easy to find out where or when I have thus far been 'eccentric.' That I was a philologist, for example, meant that I was outside my center (which fortunately does not mean that I was a poor philologist). Likewise, I now regard my having been a Wagnerian as eccentric. It was a highly dangerous experiment; now that I know it did not ruin me, I also know what significance it had for me - it was the most severe test of my character.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensiv…

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Two souls alas! dwell in my breast.

The observer is the observed.

So, I hope the Hindu's have it right, because, if there's any justice in this world, you will be reincarnated as a female, homosexual Jew, and then you will un…