What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.