The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.

The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol - brighter than my students at university.

Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or by men who love living.

But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.

Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it was true, but because humans are gullible and superstitious.

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.