To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.

We can destroy only as creators

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.