There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.

Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.