I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.

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.

Become who you are. Make what only you can make.

I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.