Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.