The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!