God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.