One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.

Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.

Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.

Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.