To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!