Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

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

Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect.

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.