you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

Christianity is Platonism for the people.

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.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!