Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.

Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.