There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?