Existence begins in every instant.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride - they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.

You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.