Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

I am not a human being, I am dynamite.

We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.