All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.

Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.

The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.

Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!