It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.