If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

Out of a brotherly love we occasionally embrace this or that somebody (because we cannot embrace everybody): but we must never letour somebody know it.

People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves