Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.

In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.

Faith makes blessed. Consequently it lies.

A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her