Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.