Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is.

They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!

Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.