What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you.

Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.

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

What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they.

The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.

The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.