The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.

Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.