Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!

One who has a why can endure anyhow.

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.