Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.