Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.