Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

One should not go into churches if one wants to breathe pure air.