We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.

I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.

Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.