Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

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

You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman--a devil!