We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt.

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.