What the father kept silent the son speaks out.

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.