Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.

The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.

We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.