The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.

Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.

If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.