Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

And nobody lies as much as the indignant do.

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.