If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.

What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.