When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.