But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.

So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.