One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.