Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?

The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him.

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.