Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.