Society and the World

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

The doer alone learneth.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?

As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.

As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.

When thou goest to woman take thy whip.

Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue.

When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed.

Great intellects are skeptical.

Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

Wherever I found a living creature there I found the will to power.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man but for this to endure it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.