My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.

Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.