I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.

Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.

Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.

Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.

It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.