Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness

Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.