There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.

Thinking evil is making evil.

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.