The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.

However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.

The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.

Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.