People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.

But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!

Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside

Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.

An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.