If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.

Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.