It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?

Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.