Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning.

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.

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

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.