Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers, and better yet--stand also on your heads!

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

The doer alone learneth.

Yes, life is a woman!

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.