To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.

Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.