Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.

It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.

Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.