Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?