We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.