The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.

The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.

It is only necessary to destroy in oneself the roots of those motives which determine a man's course, in order to enjoy the omnipotence and immunity of a god.

30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.

What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of those needs, to fulfill them, and rejoice therein.

A burnt child dreads the fire.