Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.

Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

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

In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.

Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.