Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.