We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be.

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.