Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

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.