[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in contrast [to his own] inward-turning wisdom. [To him] all learning from others is a sign of nonwisdom, because the wise man focuses his vision on his own intelligence.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.

Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.