It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

I no longer want to walk on worn soles.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.