New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these had better luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny. Such erroneous articles of faith... include the following: that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing is what it appears to be; that our will is free; that what is good for me is also good in itself.

And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.