The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.

What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.