A thought comes when it will, not when I will.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.

Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.

Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.