Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby!

I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going.

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

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.

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.