What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it.

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.

Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?