You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.

Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he may forget "men who are the rule," as their exception;-- exclusive only of the case in which he is pushed straight to such men by a still stronger instinct, as a discerner in the great and exceptional sense.

Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity. For the crowd considers anything deep if only it cannot see to the bottom: the crowd is so timid and afraid of going into the water.

Insanity in individuals is something rare, but in groups, parties, nations and epochs it is the rule

The most dangerous physicians are those who can act in perfect mimicry of the born physician.

That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.