If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion

Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.