Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.

Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

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!

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.