What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.

Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.

Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.