To the mean all becomes mean.

The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason.

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

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.