Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past, without finding his present motives (like honor) senseless, and without opposing scorn and disdain to the passions that urge one on to the future and to the happiness in it.

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the same time identifies himself with the executor of the order-who, as such, enjoys also the triumph over obstacles, but thinks within himself that it was really his own will that overcame them. In this way the person exercising volition adds the feelings of delight of his successful executive instruments, the useful underwills or under-souls-indeed, our body is but a social structure composed of many souls-to his feelings of delight as commander.

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