Goethe … thought that the Englishman only observed without…

In spite of my attack on Christianity: the Englishman who is a Christian is very much nearer to my heart than he who is not.

“Oh ! the years I have lost,” will be the exclamation of a man, if he be not philosophical, and not possess Friedrich Nietzsche’s appreciation of the value of sorrow in education.

Surely it is not every one who is chosen to combat a religion or a morality of two thousand years’ standing, fist within and then without himself.

While in the nineteenth century you [Englishmen] have been occupied in consolidating an empire, conquering new countries, and spreading civilization to all parts of the world, you have in true British magnanimity forgotten to confer this …

If I have blamed here Christianity, Christian morals, Christian humanity and helpfulness; if I have spoken ironically of all the lighter, minor, and female virtues this teaching has produced and still produces—I have done so in the name of …

With the great quality of egoism, great deeds and great merits became extinct.