All truths are bloody truths to me.

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.

I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal on earth.... I am no man, I am dynamite!

As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.