In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do.

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.