In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.