For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.

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

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

The noble type of man feels himself to be the determiner of values, he does not need to be approved of, he judges 'what harms me is harmful in itself', he knows himself to be that which in general accords honour to things, he creates values.