In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.

If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity.

Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!

You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.