The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

One should steal only where one cannot rob.