You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.

Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!

Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.

Thinking evil is making evil.

Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.

Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.