A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

I can be thrown by the wayside, but I'm looking at the stars.

But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.

The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.

The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.