[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.