There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.