A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.

Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.

Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.

Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!

Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.