The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

I no longer want to walk on worn soles.

What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.

It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.