But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world.

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.

And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.

Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.

The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.