The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.

Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?

A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.