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.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.

They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.