I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

Life is that which must overcome itself again and again

The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed

Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world.

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.