Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.

People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.

Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence.

The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.

We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.