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!

Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Many find their heart when they have lost their head.

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.