The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.

The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.