Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.

The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.