We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.

I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.

How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.