Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

The pure soul is a pure lie.

Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.

"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.