A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more fully. But a society where the mass is still simple and the seers are no longer attended to can achieve only superficiality, baseness, ugliness, and in the end extinction. On or back we must go: to stay here is death.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Jesus was either a Liar, a Lunatic, or Lord

One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.