O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.