Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

The philosopher caught in the nets of language.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.

When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.

I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.