I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and whoever has to solve great problems that challenge all his strength actually has a very restricted choice in this matter. The influence of climate on our metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration, goes so far that a mistaken choice of place and climate can not only estrange a man from his task but can actually keep it from him: he never gets to see it.

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.