Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.

Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

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.

All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.

Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.