Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Every word is a prejudice.

When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.

When asses are needed.- You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.

The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.