Friedrich Nietzsche

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.