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

Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

Life is that which must overcome itself again and again

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.

The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.