Respectability Offends My Taste.

It Is The Good War That Hallows Every Cause.

The Arrogance That Accompanies Merit Offends Us Even More Than The Arrogance Of People Who Are Lacking In Merit: Since Merit Itself Offends Us.

The Teacher As A Necessary Evil. Let Us Have As Few People As Possible Between The Productive Minds And The Hungry And Recipient Minds! The Middlemen Almost Unconsciously Adulterate The Food Which They Supply. It Is Because Of Teachers That So Little Is Learned, And That So Badly.

All Great Men Are Play Actors Of Their Own Ideal.

The Great Man... Is Colder, Harder, Less Hesitating, And Without Fear Of 'opinion'; He Lacks The Virtues That Accompany Respect And 'respectability,' And Altogether Everything That Is The 'virtue Of The Herd.' If He Cannot Lead, He Goes Alone... He Knows He Is Incommunicable: He Finds It Tasteless To Be Familiar... When Not Speaking To Himself, He Wears A Mask. There Is A Solitude Within Him That Is Inaccessible To Praise Or Blame.