The doer alone learneth.

My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.

Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.

Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.