The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.