Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.

Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.