An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.

There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

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.

We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.

The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.