A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.

What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.

We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Was that life? Well then, once more!