The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.

Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!

Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.

This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!

Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.