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

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.