Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite.

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.

Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!

Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.