The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.