Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.