Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.