Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.

For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.

The real question is: How much truth can I stand?

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.