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

Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.

Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.

When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts.

One is punished best for one's virtues.

When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.