The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.

Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!

The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.

Where one despises, one cannot wage war.

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.

Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride - they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.