You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.

Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.