There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.