If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.