Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.

I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well.

That which does not destroy, strengthens.

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.