The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.

For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.

Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest

The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.

Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.