Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.

Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers.

We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.