Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.

Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.

But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.

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

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.