Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.

Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.

The pure soul is a pure lie.

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.