Discontent is the seed of ethics.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!

In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.