At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.

For others do I wait...for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come.

Where the strong are weak, and the noble all too mild—there it builds its disgusting nest: the parasite lives where the great have small wounded recesses.

Freedoers are at disadvantage compared with freethinkers because people suffer more obviously from the consequences of deeds than from those of thoughts.

The former morality, namely Kant's, demanded of the individual actions which one desired of all men: that was a very naive thing.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.