There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world.

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.