[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.