In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?

In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.

Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?