In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.

It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.