One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.

Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.

You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.

Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.

I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.