One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

All philosophy is a form of confession.

All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.