Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies