Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.