One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.