He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.

Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.

It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.