I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.