Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.