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

O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.