Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.

Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

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