whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.

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

Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.

At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.

Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.

However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.

Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.