A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

No artist tolerates reality.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.