The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!

Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.