Theirs, too, is the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping. The Common Reader

I can resist everything except temptation. Lady Windermere's Fan

The relationship between the individual and God, the God-relationship, is the conscience. Works of Love

More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time. Beyond Good and Evil