Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.
Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.
A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.
This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.
That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.