The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!

A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.

What is the strongest cure?--Victory.