"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

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.

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.