Man is something that is to be surpassed.

Your educators can only be your liberators.

That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —