We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.