The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal.'

On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!

"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering