In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.

Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.

The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.