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.

Become who you are!

If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.