I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system.

Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.