"The usual judgments are judgments of interest and they tell us less about the nature of the person judged than about …"

"Men are forever doing two things at the same time: acting egoistically and talking moralistically."

"In point of fact there are two kinds sorts of mysticism, differing from one another as the ranting of drunkards from …"

"Christ, with whom the multitude could not deal other than by making him into God Himself, thus enabling itself to ven…"

"The difference between Christ and the other prophets is threefold: 1. Unlike the other prophets, he has no connection…"

"Great, strong, spiritual love — which is always at the same time a genuine, unsentimental love of man — cannot be wit…"

"From the midst of the flat plain of human reason, there arises the terrible, fire-spewing mountain of genius."

"Christ … made the blood of the specialists and leading spirits, the representatives of the people boil with his battl…"

"And so, from this day forth, we want all the more to let our thoughts revolve around and hover over Socrates and Chri…"

"Socrates and Christ speak to us everlastingly of mankind. … It belongs to the great, to the greatest men to say how t…"