The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?

Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.