When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.

I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

It is the evening that questions thus from within me.