In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.

Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.