Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.

You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking