"The 'great man' is a great bow from which great arrows are shot."

"In truth, man is a polluted river. One must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. I bring you the Superman! He is that sea; in him your great contempt can be submerged."

"The will to overcome an emotion is ultimately only the will of another emotion or of several other emotions."

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, how much pain, how much torture it endures and knows how to transform to its advantage."

"What does Europe owe to the Jews? Many things both good and bad, and one thing above all, at once the best and the worst: the grand moral style, the horror and the majesty of everlasting demands, ever…"