There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.