Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.