The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Out of a brotherly love we occasionally embrace this or that somebody (because we cannot embrace everybody): but we must never letour somebody know it.