One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal on earth.... I am no man, I am dynamite!

The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.

Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.