Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.