“There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.”

“no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any”

“Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.”

“One knows a little too much about everybody. And we can even see through some men, and yet we can by no means pass through them.”

“Zarathustra, however, answered thus unto him who so spake: When one taketh his hump from the hunchback, then doth one take from him his spirit—so do the people teach. And when one giveth the blind man eyes, then doth he see too many bad things on the earth: so that he curseth him who healed him. He, however, who maketh the lame man run, inflicteth upon him the greatest in him — so do the people teach concerning cripples”

“Where one can no longer love, there one should pass by.”

“To live alone one must be either a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.”