When Language Is Used Without True Significance,

The 'public' Is A Phantom, The Phantom Of An Opinion Supposed To Exist In A Vast Number Of Persons Who Have No Effective Interrelation And Though The Opinion Is Not Effectively Present In The Units. Such An Opinion Is Spoken Of As 'public Opinion,' A Fiction Which Is Appealed To By Individuals And By Groups As Supporting Their Special Views. It Is Impalpable, Illusory, Transient; "'tis Here, 'tis There, 'tis Gone"; A Nullity Which Can Nevertheless For A Moment Endow The Multitude With Power To Uplift Or Destroy.

The More Determinedly I Exist, As Myself, Within The Conditions Of The Time, The More Clearly I Shall Hear The Language Of The Past, The Nearer I Shall Feel The Glow Of Its Life.

With The Disintegration Of All That [nietzsche] Had Revered, Existence, To Him, Had Become A Desert In Which Only One Thing Remained, Namely That Which Had Relentlessly Forced Him Into This Path: Truthfulness That Knows No Limits And Is Not Subject To Any Condition.

Nietzsche's Ideas And Plans: For Example, The Idea Of Giving Up The Whole Wretched Academic World To Form A Secular Monastic Community.

I Began The Study Of Medicine, Impelled By A Desire For Knowledge Of Facts And Of Man. The Resolution To Do Disciplined Work Tied Me To Both Laboratory And Clinic For A Long Time To Come.