To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.

Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!

Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.

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