It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow..

Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of th….

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness..

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour..

The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child..

Nietzsche says that as soon as he had read a single page of Schopenhauer, he knew he would read every page of him and pay heed to every word, even to….

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vent….

The historian is looked upon as objective when he measures the past by the popular opinions of his own time, as subjective when he does not take thes….

History, in [Nietzsche's] view, belongs to him who is fighting a great fight, and who needs examples, teachers and comforters, but cannot find them a….

The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men..

What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which of….

The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth..

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and ba….

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year..

Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success..

The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of them, they will neither see nor follow ….

Being gifted needs courage..

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals..

It appears to Nietzsche that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man ... First, Rousseau's man, the Titan who raises himself ...….

The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age..

The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them..