Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian.