I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

Certitude drives people mad.

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.

You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.