I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits."

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror.<br>It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing.<br>It receives but does not keep.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.

We are always in our own company.

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.