The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence.

...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.

The English are the people of consummate cant.

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

I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.