The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.

God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.