Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness

The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.