The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.

Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.