you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.

It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.

In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.