One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.

Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.