Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.

The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.

Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.