The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.

I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.

To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!