Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.

If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.

From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

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.

Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.