When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!