To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist.

Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.