At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.

Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.